Re: Debian 3.0r0 on a Vaio PCG-C1MHP (Firewire CD-RW only)
Thanks for the quick reply!
On Sun, 25 Aug 2002 21:32:56 +0100
Patrick Brunner <astaroth@nethaus.ch> wrote:
I have recently bought a Sony Vaio PCG-C1MHP and would like to install
Debian 3.0r0 on it (on the second partition, as Win XP is allowed to
reside on the first partition). This Vaio Picturebook only comes with a
CD-RW/DVD-ROM-Combo-Drive, attached to the Firewire port. As the Debian
3.0r0 DVD easily can be booted, it's not possible to proceed with the
installation since none of the boot kernel flavors supports Firewire
The bf2.4 kernel has support for firewire. It is however compiled as a
module, so I'm not sure if it will be of use to you.
Unfortunately, I can't load any modules. When the installation routine comes to
the point where it asks from where to install the kernel and the modules, only
following options are available:
- /dev/fd0
- /dev/fd1
- harddisk
- mounted
First two options don't work in lack of an FDD. The third does not work as the first
partition is not accessible (NTFS) and the second, intented for Debian, is empty at his time.
And the forth option also does not work because the Firewire CD-RW/DVD-ROM can not be mounted
(no access to the modules on the disk).
Installation over the network seems to be impossible too (at least, I
can not figure out how to do it).
What have you tried so far? Normally, this is just a matter of booting
the system with the PCMCIA card inserted. Then, provided the driver for
the PCMCIA card is present you should have an option to configure your
network prior to installing the base system. What PCMCIA NIC (or other
NIC interface) are you attempting to use?
Here, if have to try again. The NIC is a builtin one, but I haven't identified the type yet...
I've also a PCMCIA NIC (D-Link DE-660) at hand, but not tried so far. As long, as the drivers are
only available as modules, it probabla will not work with both NIC's.
Is there any other way I could bootstrap Debian?
Got a floppy drive? Using the bf2.4 boot flopies should give you access
to the device, but you will most likely need the driver floppies too.
No, unfortunately, I don't have a floppy drive... :-(
Regards,
Patrick
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